Khartoum, March 26(Darfur 24)
The Emergency Lawyers Group called for a transparent investigation to uncover the circumstances of the repeated indiscriminate bombing by Sudanese army aircraft and bring those responsible to justice.
In a statement on its social media platforms, the human rights group condemned the aerial bombardment that targeted citizens’ homes in the city of El Fasher on Monday, killing 9 civilians and wounding others.
The statement indicated that Sudanese army warplanes bombed, at dawn on Monday, the eastern neighborhoods in the city of El Fasher, including “factories, Al-Wefaq, and Al-Wahda,” resulting in 9 civilian casualties, including women and children, and the injury of 14 others, in addition to the destruction of property and vital infrastructure.
He said that targeting civilians and destroying their property constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights laws, and must be strongly condemned and the perpetrators punished in accordance with the law.
He explained that international conventions and agreements clearly stipulate the prohibition of targeting civilians and civilian property in armed conflicts.
He added, “Since the outbreak of the war, a series of violations has continued by military aviation, which fails to distinguish military targets and has become a tool for targeting civilians and forcibly displacing them, especially since El Fasher is the only safe city in the Darfur region and shelters thousands of displaced people from the different states of Darfur.”
The raid that was launched at night on the city of El Fasher was the sixth this March, the ninth this year, and the 12th since the beginning of the fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in April last year.